Feeling blessed starts as a reflection upon our circumstances. Each of us, when contemplating our history, realizes in retrospect that there were good things there. So starts our struggle to return to the time and place that we identify as our "home". It is the feeling evoked when we remember the homemade apple pie mom used to bake.
In our search, the Savior calls to us to follow Him. He asks us to surrender the pursuit of our own agendas into His leadership. He asks us to make our home in Him.
Once we've made the transition to living through grace, our understanding grows. It is an overwhelming relief to know that our failures are forgotten. Our undeserved inheritance is secure, our fellowship Divine. All these gifts come not as a result of our own merit, but are freely given to us from the nature of who God is. We feel blessed when we realize who it is we worship. We feel blessed from an understanding of the truth of our victiory in Him.
Finally, we began to realize how sweeping and exalted is the vision we've joined. We are part of the whole. We've aquired a destiny as priest administrators. Feeling blessed is being able to share the vision, to comfort as we were once comforted, to open up in others the same dawning comprehension and insight into the mysteries of God and the way he choses to work. Feeling blessed is the honor and priviledge of being His hands of mercy and compassion. We are entrusted as emissaries of our Savior and His sacrifice.
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